Middle · Mississippi
W.A. Higgins Academy Of Arts/International Studies
Free meals for allW.A. Higgins Academy Of Arts/International Studies, a public middle school in Clarksdale, Mississippi: grades 7–8, 269 students, 23.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Clarksdale Municipal School District.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 269
- Teachers (FTE)
- 11.4
- Students per teacher
- 23.6
- Grades
- 7–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 98% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 13.2 · 180 schools compared
More students per teacher than 97% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Smaller than 74% of middle schools in Mississippi
Median 374 · 181 schools compared
Smaller than 79% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 7–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Remote town
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Clarksdale Municipal School District.
Location
- Address
- 1749 Chestnut Street, Clarksdale, MS 38614
- Phone
- (662)627-8550
- City or town
- Clarksdale
- County
- Coahoma County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Oakhurst Intermediate SchoolFree meals for all | 5–6 | 197 | 16.1 |
| 7–8 | 172 | 14.3 | |
Quitman County Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 265 | 25.9 |
KIPP:Delta College Prep SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 6–8 | 163 | 10.6 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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